Friday, June 14, 2013

What I did today

A very common question I receive as a teacher is any kind of variation on, "What are you going to do with your summer?".

Here is what I did today, so far:

Woke up at 7.00am

Watered the flowers and the front road bed which was a bit dry

Drove to Breadworks to get coffee and scones for the family (should have ridden, I know)

Sat at patio table, drank coffee and read the newspaper a bit

At 8.15, took 'L' to his art camp

Sat at the computer and played with maps for potential rides and tours.

Rode a bit over 20 miles. I stopped at Caperton Swamp for some bird nerding and then at Eva Bandman for more bird nerding. Fact is, the weather (75F, sunny, lowish humidty) is just about perfect and I'm happy to ride, view, putter, ramble, ride, etc. I'm not very driven to pile on mega-mileage at the moment.

More computing including a letter to the passport office about 'Z's' missing passport. Both the post office and someone there screwed up and they're suggesting we pay $72 to expedite it for his July trip. Screw that. They screwed up. They should finish the damn thing and mail it here, thanks.

Mid-afternoon blog writing and bird researching

Shower

In a mad dash, from 3.30 to 5.30 I ran to Kroger to drop off a prescription and then picked 'L' up from art camp and then returned to Kroger to pick up scrip and then to home for 'L' to change and to give scrip to 'Z' and then to MVSC for a summer pick-up game

Read a book and watched an indoor soccer game

Picked 'Z' up and went to Buckhead's- Z's choice. Had a nice flight of IPAs mostly and a chicken sandwich with veggies.

Stopped by Party Mart for various sundries.

Am now home, partaking of sundries, finishing the post and living the Dream.